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In article <DHJFpr.91G@RnA.NL> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL  writes:

>Well, so far I have been unable to install OS/2 Warp Connect on the system with
>  
>the AHA-2940. I have 2 systems. which are almost identical, except for:
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>AHA-2940                DPT 2124
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>The DPT card arrived yesterday, that gave me the possibility to build the  
>second system. I booted it up and to my surprise, FDISK saw a disk with 31MB  
>capacity, instead of the 2069MB that is actually there (HP3725S). That made me  >suspicious. After a couple of reboots, it suddenly showed 1023MB. I decided to  >take the risk and low-level format the disk.
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>Lo and behold! After a low level format, all was perfect and even OS/2  
>installed without a glitch.
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>That made me wonder, is the low level format of the HP disks to blame for my  
>install problems? I tried the same trick on the AHA-2940. To no avail, it just  >doesn't work.  When using HPFS the install process is slow (one file copied in  >1 minute after which some timeout occurs so it seems) and after 2 or 3 files it
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>just hangs.
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>Should I just give up on the AHA-2940? After all, the DPT just works. Or is  
>there a way to make this install from CD work? For instance, how do I copy thsi
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>OS/2 disk 1 with its non-DOS extra-sectors format? I do have the lates Adaptec  >driver, but I don't want to overwrite it on the original disk. I also don't  
>want to create flopy disks form the images on the CD, as I want to be sure that
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>the system (SCSI- HP - Toshiba) works, and installation is a good test.
> 
>So far, I haven't seen the golden tip, and I am on the point of giving up on  
>the Adaptec.
>
>Thanks,

I use a 2940 with Warp and have had no problems.

My installation may have been done in an earlier incarnation of the machine
with a different controler though.

I'm using a NEC double speed CD ROM drive and a Conner 4 gig 7200 RPM drive.

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John Beardmore